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  • On the Balance of Work and Study

    How can we make time and space in our busyโ€”and seemingly ever busierโ€”lives for the life of the mind?  Join our Philosophical Happy Hour this week as we strive together for a more balanced way of life. For much of human history, the life of the mind has been a domain of the privileged fewโ€”reserved,…

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  • Meet the Columbanus Fellows: Joshua Streeter

    Today we continue highlighting some of our Columbanus Fellows, demonstrating the quality of our endeavors!โ€‚These fellows are engaged in a rigorous and deep inquiry into the Western intellectual tradition, seeking both to retrieve lost wisdom and to further its presence in our society today. Joshua A. Streeter is a doctoral candidate in the Department of…

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  • Meet the Columbanus Fellows: Lance Gracy

    Over the next several months we will highlight a few of our Columbanus Fellows, bringing to light the character of students engaged in our program!โ€‚These fellows are engaged in a rigorous and deep inquiry into the Western intellectual tradition, seeking both to retrieve lost wisdom and to further its presence in our society today. Lance…

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  • This Week [2/28-3/6]

    Moving into our Spring quarter already! Seminars and more at the Lyceum Institute.

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  • [Winter 2021] Ethics: The Good Life

    Can we be happy?  At times, looking around in our twenty-first century world, it would seem that โ€œhappinessโ€ is a contingent, fleeting and difficult-to-grasp matter more of luck than of choice and action.  Such a view stems from an implicitly nihilistic worldview, one unconsciously imbibed by many today, in which meaning is imposed upon the…

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